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Article: The disquiet of archaeology: Fernando Pessoa's detective writings.
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- Portuguese Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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ABSTRACT. In this article I aim to demonstrate that Fernando Pessoa's interest in detective fiction is not marginal to the so-called 'major' works but is deeply rooted in his concern with epistemological questions and his obsession with 'abnormality' (crime, madness, degeneration ...). My argument is that Pessoa, as a discerning and well-informed Reader of detective stories, engaged both in the elaboration of a poetics of detective fiction and in the improvement of this kind of narrative. In doing so, Pessoa came near to a revisionist writing of the genre which resembles that led after World War II by many European and American writers (Robbe-Grillet, Nabokov and others). ...
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